This is a notebook of projects I attempt with a Raspberry Pi or wearable technology

About me

In the photo I am in the blue blouse. It's taken on the famous little railway to Shimla. I'm a Code Club volunteer and love messing about with computing and particularly coding in Scratch. I want to get into 'maker' stuff using my Raspberry Pi but I'm a complete newbie. I am learning a bit about electronic making by going to Leeds Raspberry Jam once a month. I'm looking to do a robot project with the Raspberry Pi Zero in the future. I've just started an adventure to code wearable LEDs using an Adafruit Gemma. And I've been lucky to have been given a CodeBug so I'm learning to use that too!

York W Raspberry Jam

The aim of this first Raspberry Jam was to get beginners coding.

These two were animating a cat and dog and learnt how to resize and move their cat and dog sprites- getting their sprites to turn around at the edge of the screen. They also worked out the basic control blocks you need to make your code work.

and used it to go further into Scratch. A variation of the Boat Race game, which is explained in the book, resulted in a maze game that we enjoyed.

Boat Race game

Next time we need to get involved in physical computing, perhaps, using BBC micro:bits or the Pibrella. However I’m looking forward to seeing some more complete beginners because the more adults and children who know what coding is all about, the better!